Memorable Quote: "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man.
Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
Clint Eastwood both paid homage to his Man With No Name/Dirty Harry persona
and commented on the very genre that made
... more him famous with his fantastic
"Unforgiven" -- an unsparing, unsentimental Western that felt radical for its
complicated study of violence. Eastwood plays Munny, a once violent gunfighter
who has put down his pistol to become an aging pig farmer. He's lured back into
his violent past when a bounty on two cowboys promises much-needed money.
Saddling up with ex-partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and the young and
overly excited Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett), and contending with
the brutal though oddly charming small-town sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), Munny has plenty of experiences to
brood on the feeling and cost of violence to the soul. It's a movie made by a
wiser, critical Eastwood but also one of tribute as he dedicates the picture to
his previous mentors "Sergio and Don," (Leone and Siegel). (Warner Bros.
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